Sundays @ Noon: Beckett into Music featuring works by Benjamin Dwyer and Barry Guy
3 February 2019 12:00
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
With Benjamin Dwyer, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger and Barry McGovern
Programme
Benjamin Dwyer: six residua (world première)
György Kurtág: ‘Hommage a Eberhard Feltz’ after Beckett's Roundelay
Barry Guy: Fizzles (after Beckett)
Benjamin Dwyer: what is the word (triptych with interludes) (world première)
And then what about silence itself, is it not still waiting for its musician?
A concert featuring new works by Benjamin Dwyer inspired by Beckett, alongside works by Barry Guy and György Kurtág.
what is the word uses Beckett’s texts Neither, Worstward Ho (excerpt) and What is the word, and is described by the composer as “a musical meditation, on the relationship of sound to linguistic structures.”
Venue